[Panel-devel] Plasma::Svg dilema

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Wednesday 17 October 2007, Richard Moore wrote:
> On 10/16/07, Ivan Čukić <ivan.cukic+kde at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I need to paint the same SVG in all instances of one class, but in
> > different sizes. What is the better approach (both speed and
> > memory-wise), to have a pointer to the same Svg object and do the
> > resizing on every paint, or to have separate Svg objects for each
> > instance?
>
> They need to be multiple instances otherwise you destroy the benefit
> of the caching and force a re-render each time.

that is *only* true if the cache size limit is reached. which will happen 
whether or not you have multiple SVG objects. not that it matters much either 
way since internally they share the same QSvgRenderer anyways.

reading the code is helpful at times =)

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